Wanted to try this particular Hong Kong Soya Sauce Chicken Noodle stall (#04-48 Beauty World Food Centre, 144 Upper Bukit Timah Road) because have heard good things about them. Believe it or not, there are a least a few other stalls that do soya sauce chicken and have similar stall names. The fallen Hawker Chan was one of them.
What I was curious about mostly was their sui gao/shui jiao/水饺. That didn't mean I wasn't interested in trying out their soya sauce chicken though. We arrived at about 11am and were the 3rd in line. The lights in the stall were curiously still not switched on and would never get switched on even when we had finished and left.
The proprietress had shared that we had to wait through a 21 order takeaway just before our turn and the one after ours had 30 packets - she did not switch on the lights in the hopes of not attracting more people to queue up. 😱
Anyways, their sui gao was a solid one and worth going a little out of the way for. The silky smooth dumplings were large and packed with minced pork, whole shrimps and strips of wood ear fungus (木耳). I'm going to rank the ones at Xiang Jiang Soya Sauce Chicken (香江豉油鸡) above this because that one has water chestnuts in the stuffings as well - the fourth cardinal ingredient in sui gao epitome.
Soya sauce chicken was slurp off the bone tender. There was more meat than the picture suggested because half of it was under the dumplings and noodles.
There's a chilli sauce which one could help themselves to which packed a sharp tangy prickle with a hint of ginger. Was a nice complement to the chilli paste they already included in the noodles.
Don't forget the soup on the side. I tasted some umami and sweetness from dried cuttlefish (or maybe scallops) and it was delicious that I drained my bowl.
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